SGOs & PDPs

Your SGO is for YOU, not the student(s).  It is an assessment of the effectiveness of classroom instruction and assessment practices measuring student growth over the course of the school year.  Therefore, it is not something that students should be aware of or worry about!  Instead, the SGO should reflect the skills, practices, and knowledge that you're teaching throughout each of your units. 

Your SGO should encompass either all or the majority of your students. For example if at the MS/HS level, if you have 3 classes of the same content area, 1 SGO should be with that class. 

An SGO IS NOT a pre and post test.  That shows knowledge gain, which is obvious, but little growth over time. Instead, the SGO should measure the skills and content that students are learning throughout the year and are applying to new situations or problems. Examples can include:

• Science: lab reports, CER's, predictions, or other scientific practices. 

• Math: problem solving, mathematical practices, 

• Social Studies: DBQs, skills, evidence based writing

• ELA: writing tasks, cold reads

• World Languages: situational speaking, reading, writing, and/or listening 

• PE: physical performances

• Arts/Music: performance assessments

• Related Arts/Business: performance assessments

When reflecting on the District's SGOs, one approach that would be highly recommended is to use a series of assessments to determine the final SGO score. Rather than putting all "the eggs in one basket," instead break down the tasks over a series of assessments, which will ultimately equal 100% of the score.  See the document below for examples.  Feel free to copy & paste the language and modify as needed. 

Your supervisor, principal, or colleague can show you how to enter the SGO into Realtime or you can watch the attached video below, approx. 1 minutes, that walks you through the process.  Please note, this video was created last year so some of the references may be a little out of date (i.e. remote learning), but it provides a general overview. If you have questions, please reach out to your principal or supervisor. 

Creating an SGO in Realtime Video

The PDP is your professional growth goals for the year. The PDP is also entered into Realtime. 

The PDP should have 2, may 3 areas for growth. 

Area 1 - Aligned to a District, Department, or Building goal. Good examples:

• "Using data to assess student learning and growth.  Using the LinkIt! data locker to upload assessment data in order to better assess student learning and growth over time. The goal this year will be to learn how to use data locker and to conduct 4 data analysis reviews with my supervisor and grade level or content area colleagues in order to evaluate and analysis our assessments and to modify those assessments based on the student data."

• "Questioning (3b) has been identified in my evaluation as an area that I'd like to focus. I plan to research how to promote more student inquiry and student developed questions as well as refining my questioning to my students. My goal will be to conduct research how to have students develop their own questions, research on developing inquiry based lessons, and to then implement those strategies."

• "Student engagement (3c) has been a challenge, especially since the pandemic. I would like to research differentiated instruction methods in order to construct learning centers that are truly differentiated by ability and difficulty.  Over the course of the year, my goal is to conduct at least 5 lessons that have differentiated learning stations where the assessment of and for learning is also differentiated to best reflect the needs of all students."